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ATLANTA, CUDQRGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1M1
Jewish Agency Settles
Youth Aliyah Issue
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Jewish Agency executive, at a
special meeting this month de
voted entirely to the current
sqaafcble over placemen of Youth
Aliyah awards from Orthodox
backgrounds, decided to enlarge
the committee handling classifi
cation of Youth Aliyah wards to
include Orthodox representation.
The decision was lauded by Chief
Rabbi Nissim.
In its statement, the executive
gave its unqualified backing to
the Youth Aliyah and its direc
tor, Moshe Kol, asserting that the
work of the agency “always has
been and will continue to be
based on the principle which en
sures accommodation and up
bringing in religious institutions
of all of its wards who come
from Orthodox homes, or who
had previously been educated in
Orthodox schools, or whose par
ents had opted for religious
education for their children.”
In announcing the expansion
of the classification committee,
the executive said it was doing
so “to avoid any possible inad
vertent errors in the future and
to forestall any suspicions or
misrepresentations.” The execu
tive said the committee hence
forth will consist of four edu
cators, including two on behalf
of the Youth Aliyah religious
committee, and the Chief Rab
binate.”
The statement said that 30,000
of a total of 70,000 boys and girls
who have been handled by Youth
Aliyah since Israel was pro
claimed had received a full re
ligious education and that the
percentage was considerably
higher for the last group Of
Youth Aliyah wards moat of
whom had come from an Ortho
dox background. Despite “certain
difficulties the executive added,
224 or 79 percent of this group
of 283 wards were to be found
in Orthodox institutions.
The executive also condemned
the “virulent propaganda cam
paign” conducted by "certain
circles in Israel and abroad”
about the absorption of this par
ticular group of Youth Aliyah
wards. The executive called the
campaign “senseless libel and
unscrupulous slandering of the
Zionist Organization” and of its
“most felicitous institution which
for many years has been en
gaged in the rescue of young
Jewish souls.”
Meanwhile, A g u d a s Israel,
which has been among the
sharpest critics of the Youth Ali
yah administration, was asked to
retract its allegations or face
litigation charging slanderous
libel. The demand was contained
in a letter to the Aguda execu
tive from A. Luchovsky, Jewish
Agency attorney, who asked a
public retraction of the charges
leveled at Youth Aliyah on giant
posters calling for a mass rally
here.
Anti-Bias Clak C deleted
From Peace Corps Bit
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WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sen
ate conferees, led by Chairman
J W. Fulbright of the Foreign
Relations Committee, were dis
closed this week to have elimin
ated an anti-bias clause from
the Peace Corps bill now before
Congress.
Peace Corps Director R. Ser
geant Shriver had insisted, in an
appearance before Sen. Ful-
bright’s committee, that Peace
Corps personnel would not be
sent ino countries, like the Arab
states, which discriminate against
U.S. personnel on a basis of re
ligious or racial prejudice.
By unanimous vote, the House
adopted an amendment barring
Peace Corps operations in na
tions seeking to enforce bigotry.
Rep. Silvio O. Conte, Massachu
setts Republican, said this amend
ment was “directed paricularly
to the Arab countries that have
discriminated against American
boys of Jewish faith. I do not
think they should have the bene
fit of the Peace Corps.”
It was learned that the State
Department, through Sen. Ful
bright, interceded in the Senate-
House conference to delete the
anti-bias measure, approved by
Anglo-Jewish Writers
Appeal to USSR on Jews
Martin Buber Receives
Hammarskjold Letter
Day of Crash
UNITED NATIONS, <WUP)
—The day Dag Hammarskjold
met Ms tragic death In Africa,
phtteeepher Martin Baber in
Ientol received a personal let
ter from the Secretary Gen-e
era! in which he was inform
ed that the translation into
Swedish of his book, “God and
Myself,” was complete and
that it would soon appear in
Sweden. Dag Hammarskjold
was known as a ‘Hassid’ of
Baber.
LONDON, (JTA)—Ten leading
Anglo->Jewish writers released
this week the text of a letter
sent to the Soviet Writers Union
asking equal cultural and reli
gious rights for Soviet Jews. The
letter was sent on July 28 and
withheld from publication in the
hope of eliciting a reply. In the
continued absence of any re
sponse, the text of the letter was
made public.
Citing the abolition in the
USSR of Jewish national organ
izations, schools, publishing
houses, newspapers, magazines,
theaters and libraries during
the Stalin regime, the letter
stressed that Russia had been the
home of an important part of
Jewish literature and added: “we
are disurbed that no serious ef
fort has been made since to re-
Hammarskjold Termed Southern Israelite's
United Nations Correspondent A Friend
establish Jewish cultural institu
tions.”
“We are also disturbed by the
often extreme anti-Jewish
sterno-types used in articles of
feullitons attacking Judaism in
the Soviet press, particularly in
the provincial papers circulating
in the Ukraine, White Russia,
Moldavid and the Baltic coun
tries,” the writers declared. It
also cited the forced separation
of Soviet Jews from relatives
living in other countries. “It
would be a resounding act of
humanity if the Soviet authori
ties would enable those who wish
to do so to at least rejoin their
relatives abroad,” the letter said.
The ten signatories were Wolf
Mankowitz, one of England’s
leading young intellectuals; Ber
nard Kops, one of the “new
wave” dramatists; Jon Silkin,
young British poet; Peter Shaf
fer, author of the London and
Broadway success; ‘Five Finger
Exercise”; Brian Glanville, lead
ing British novelist and Sunday
Times writer; Dan Jacobson,
former South African novelist
and critic; Dannie Abse, poet
and playwright; Novelist Frede
rick Raphael; Garda Charles, a
leading woman novelist and
critic; and Emanuel Litvinoff,
poet, essayist and novelist.
The above photo shows the late Secretary General Dog Hammer
skjold together with our UN correspondent at a recent inception.
Through the past eight years, Mr. Hammarskjold tad Mr. fn«”’*lt*
kept in close touch with each other’s activities linked with. UN en
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Sentence Jewish
Politico in Turkey
ISTANBUL, (JTA) —One Jew
is among former deputies of Tur
key’s parliament found guilty of
“violating the Constitution” in
long trials of members of the
former Turkish Government, just
concluded at Yasslada. He is
Isaac Altabev.
He was aentenced by the court
to four years’ imprisonment, plus
four months’ exile in the central
Turkish town of Kayseri. He was
also deprived of his civic rights
The sentence meted to Mr. Alta
bev was similar to the penalties
imposed on most members of the
former Parliament triad by the
Yassiada court
the House. Representative Thom
as E. Morgan, Pennsylvania Dem
ocrat, chairman of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, ad
mitted that the amendment
“caused the conference a great
deal of concern.” Rep. Morgan
expressed sympathy for the
amendment’s purpose but ap
parently had to go along with
he Executive Department’s
wishes. The Executive Depart
ment emphasized that they
would not have Peace Corps pro
grams in a country that made
American personnel “repeatedly
subject to discrimination.”
As a result, “the managers on
the part of the House agreed to
the deletion of this provision.
They are concerned that in the
less developed countries Govern
ment policy frequently may not
be well coordinated and public
opinion not fully matured. Un
der the circumstances, individual
incidents of discrimination might
occur which did not reflect either
the policy of the Goverenment or
the attitude of the public gen
erally.
“One of the functions to be
served by Peace Corps volun
teers should be to bring about an
understanding by the people of
the countries in which they serve
of different races, religions, and
national points of view. It would
be undesirable to deprive any
country of the benefit of this
Wt* of service on the part of
the Peace Corps.”
Peace Corps leaders were
shocked by the elminatkm of the
anti-bias measure. Sources said
that the Corps makes no inquiry
into religion of members and
therefore would be technically
unable to comply with foreign
demands that persons of the
Jewish or other faiths be weeded
out
Rep. Seymour Halpera, New
York Republican, said in the
House that it was “deplorable"
that the Peace Corps act was
stripped of its anti-bias clause
and that “we are voting to send
out a Peace Corps which is, in
effect, segregated.”
He termed the elimination of
the clause an appeasement of
those who take American assist
ance but dictate “which Ameri
cans employed by the U.S. Gov
ernment can enter those, coun
tries.” 0e said the elimination
violated “President Kennedy’s
own policy of liaking social just
ice and morality with our assist
ance.”
Rep. Halpern, a co-sponsor of
the anti-bias measure incorporat
ed into the foreign aid appftpyia-
tions act, said he would vote for
the Peace Corps act because pf
its main intent although he
deeply regretted the elimination
of anti-bias provisions. Ho said
it was “one of the saddest posi
tions” he was ever forced to
take in a vote.
Israel Opens
Exhibit at
Memphis Fair
MEMPHIS—Israel is exhibiting
at the annual Mid-South Yair,
which opened here Sept 22.
Four foreign countries: Bel
gium, France, Italy and Israel
have exhibits at this Exhibition
which, it is expected, will be
visited by about half a million
people.
The Israel Booth displays lat
est fashion, ladies knit-wear,
men’s coats, sweets and confec
tionaries, wines, a great variety
of giftwear of metal, wood, Elan
and ceramics, and a variety of
other industrial merchandise,
such as: pipes and fittings, as*
The two moat striking exhihtu
on display are a rod-oakred
Sabra Sports Car and aa larael
Government Tourist Corp. dis
play featuring scenery and tour
ist information, as well as serv
ices provided by Israel’s national
shipping and air lines, “ZIM”
and “EL AL."
The Exhibition is organized
and sponsored by the Israel Con
sulate in Atlanta, and by a vol
unteer committee of the Jewish
Community of Memphis.
Consul Zeev Dover of Atlanta
was in Memphis Sunday for “In
ternational Day at the Fair” and
the official opening of the Israel
exhibit, which is being directed
by Vice Consul Yehoshuoa Trigor.
The largest of the foreign-
country exhibits, the Israel dis
play evoked considerable inter
est and surprise that this young
est of Mid East nation^ is al
ready an industrial country with
products of great variety for ex
port.
Atlanta Elects Sam Massell, Jr.
To Head Aldermanic Board
Sam Massell Jr., member of
the Atlanta Jewish community,
on September 22 emerged victor
in a run-over
election as
president of his
city’s Board of
Alderman.
The 14-year-
old real estate
firm associate
topped his Op
ponent
close
48,241 to
in a recori
turn-out
Highlight of the rtto-over was
the race between moderate Ivan
Allen Jr. and Lester Maddox,
who waged an on-the-line race
issue campaign. Allen swept into
office as famed Mayor Harts-
field’s successor by 64,313 votes
to 86,091.
Sam Massell Jr, is the nephew
of Atlanta’s outstanding realty
and communal )aader Ben Mas
sell. He bad safvd for several
years as seentavy of the Atlanta
Democratic fcnputive Commit
tee.
Sol P. Benamy, another leader
in the Jewish community, was
elected without OQQrtitiM to the
City Execuive Committee
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